• Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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            Republicanism in the UK is either Irish Republicanism or about overthrowing the monarchy, so yeah in our context it’s left wing. /r/abolishthemonarchy for example is what you’d call a republican subreddit in the UK.

            The people are a mixed bag though. There’s a class collaborationist thing going on between socialists and liberals pushing it. I suspect there’s a section of conservatives who lean this way as well but less so than the left and libs.

            • Yeah, I’d probably count the IRA but not the other one as “very left wing”.

              They were only bringing it up to be a smuglord lib when the original context was about Republicans in the US, so take that what you will…

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      The Bolsheviks were actually International Monarchists that toppled the Tsar so they could do a Tsar 2. The plan was to destroy it and rebuild it stronger. Your standard Robocop situation.